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The Las Vegas I Remember

Published May 16, 2009 at 5:00 AM PDT

Eighty-eight year old Claudine Williams died Wed after a lengthy illness. She talked about selling the Silver Slipper to Hughes' aide, Robert Maheu, and about about living and working alongside mobsters in Las Vegas.

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